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Here’s a story you all saw coming. If a new model pickup truck is on the road for any amount of time, somebody is going to ram a deer with it! What makes this collision unique is the pickup truck in question: a 2024 Tesla CyberTruck. The headline tells much of the […]

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[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Protip: just do a nazi salute and Teslas will avoid hitting you

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 44 points 1 year ago

No, no, that's how you heil the Cybertaxi.

The Cybertruck can't see well enough to recognize hand signals, you'll get plowed for sure.

Well, that'd certainly be a novel solution to the trolley problem. Just make sure FSD always defaults to hitting the non-nazis first.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when the Hummer H2 was the douchebag SUV... how times have changed

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago

it still is, there's just more than one now.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

Elmo claims that....

Its a lie. If Elmo claims something, its automatically a lie. The guy literally doesn't know what else to do but lie, he hasn't done anything else but lie over the past decades.

If would be so nice if news media could pick up on that...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Safer for pedestrians

"It only slices deer in half, which is 100% fatal. Humans just get blunt force trauma that has a 1.59% survival rate."

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 25 points 1 year ago

Who would believe a word that fucker says?

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Safer as in less suffering.

[–] thann@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he says in the video that his truck is "bombproof in the inside and outside" WTF does that even mean?

[–] phant@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Car-bombers who recently purchased cyber trucks are gonna be pissed!

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone already did that a bit ago with a bunch of fireworks and I think it worked?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

Quiet down, Zangoose... You'll get us all-expenses paid tickets to Guantanamo Bay

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

75mph is a lot, regardless of vehicle. A deer's mass is horizontal whereas a human's is vertical, altering the results. Fuck the cybertruck, but at least be logical.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, everyone knows the cutting and penetrative power is decreased in a linear fashion with contact area.